Saturday, August 18, 2012

This month for her photo shoot Madeleine was uninterested in taking pictures and spent the whole time grabbing and reading as many of her books as she could get her hands on.

Madeleine is 19 months old. That's over a year and half old. Who told her she was allowed to grow up this much?

Maddie is wearing mostly 24month to 2T clothes though it varies widely by brand. Baby clothes sizing is really weird. She has a big ol' belly (21" after dinner--really) and big ol' booty but tiny little shoulders. Madeleine has just started wearing size 5 shoes. What a big girl!

Maddie Rie is just getting sweeter and sweeter everyday single day. She is so loving. She loves giving us kisses, hugs, and pats everything accompanied with the most precious little "oohhhhh". She does this when we ask her to and all on her own. I love those wet slopping kisses. When she sees something she loves that she can pick up like a book, stuffed animal, stickers, or sippy cup she will cuddle it between her cheek and shoulder and say "oohhhhh". This happens all day long.

The Bitty Girl is so so sweet but she also learned to whine this month. It's neato.

Madeleine has eight teeth now and they have been a pest! The last two bottom teeth that have come in have greatly hindered her going night night abilities. There are many nights that she just can't do it and spends some time cuddling with mom and dad watching tv. I'm pretty sure, other than Tylenol, the best thing for teeth is cartoons! I didn't want Maddie to watch tv until she turned two but with me not feeling so hot and her teeth we totally caved on that rule. I'm sure if her teeth had come in sooner (first one came at 13.5 months) we would've been here long ago!

Over the course of a few nights of being up late with achy teeth she watched her first movie, "Mr. Popper's Penguins". This kid loves animals and waddled her way happily through the whole movie.

Maddie enjoyed the Olympic events that included any kind of splashing or horses. We actually watched dressage for the first time because she was loving it so much.

Madeleine's newest favorite activity is watching zoo webcams. SHE LOVES IT and asks at least once during the day to open the laptop and see her buddies. I'm a wimp and wont take her to the zoo in Houston during the summer so this is her next best option. Her favorite animals to watch are elephants and baby tigers. Runners up are giraffes, panda bears, and monkeys. She watches the animals so "actively". She talks nonstop about what she is seeing and what they are doing. It's delightful!

She is learning to eat with a fork but it does look pretty similar to eating with a spoon. She is so occupied by how much work it is to feed herself now that she will allow us to put a bib on her and she usually forgets that it's on. Thank goodness.

Madeleine is talking a lot and we recognize much of what she says but who knows what all we would understand if she had a few more teeth to use for enunciation! Her new favorite phrase is "oh, cool!" She is also added no way, Ranger (her dog cousin), cheese, there she/he is, hi everybody, i see it, i touch it, no, present, I'll help, and uh uh k k.

Oh cool!! Is said REALLY LOUD!!!! We love it

While spending the night with her CiCi and Pops Maddie worked them really hard and refused to go to sleep so they tried to put on a dvd for her. Long story short they are technologically challenged and were having trouble so Maddie grabbed one of the remotes and told Pop "I'll help!" The laughed pretty hard at that one.

Madeleine woke up from a nap one Sunday afternoon, went straight to her playroom, stopped in the doorway looked at all her stuff and said "hi everybody!"

One afternoon while watching her zoo cam she said very clearly "I want to see the elephants." This kid is too smart.

Maddie also has discovered screaming! She sounds like an 11 year old girl whose gross little brother just interrupted her slumber party. It is deafening. She does it when she's mad, when she's happy, when she's experimenting with her voice. We have learned not to ask her a question when we know she will react excitedly to while holding her. Poor eardrums.

When we ask Maddie a question like to you want to... she answers many time with "uh uh" (no) then "k k k". It's very confusing.

This will only really make sense if you have kids but Maddie loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and at the beginning of the show all the characters do a roll call and say here except for Donald Duck who says present in his lispy spitty duck voice. Maddie says present when Donald does and it sounds sooo similar because she has a major lisp and spit voice having only 8 front teeth! It's a hoot.

Madeleine had to have blood drawn and either her veins were really difficult or the technician was bad but it took two arms to get what they needed and she FREAKED. Thank goodness Daddy took off work to come with us. After her first vein stopped working and they had started on the second arm she took a quick pause in her screaming and put the other arm up in the air (baby sign language) and said "all done." She pulls this sign language and phrase out a lot but this was definitely the best situation for it. After the appointment we went to PetSmart to watch doggie day care. Some people get ice cream but we do this. PetSmart solves all of Maddie's angst.

Maddie Rie is very into doing things for herself these days. She does not want help with her spoon or going up and down the stairs. Life is taking longer and getting messier with this new self sufficiency.

Maddie is a little copy cat. She puts on deodorant (with the cap on), shoes, makeup, pretends to take pills (you know who takes too much medication when your kid copies this!), and even tries to copy subtle things we do like closing a door with your foot or scratching your shoulder. This kid misses nothing!

She is getting more and more physical and more sure of her body. Maddie can climb on much of our furniture. She spins, marches, and jumps (brings on knee up to her chest).

Madeleine is a difficult eater but is starting to try some things she refused in the past. This month she tried and liked pizza and mac 'n' cheese. Those aren't great nutritional additions to her repertoire but it's exciting for us!

Little linebacker

Public Service Announcement - Watermelon should be served only to naked babies.

Reading with my GiGi

Playing with cousin Mark David

Bunny! You complete me!

A green bean and pasta!!!

HAHAHA. Like I'm really going to swallow that!

After Maddie's blood draw she took at nap at Pop's and CiCi's house. We hadn't taken her band-aids off yet. But apparently she took care of that before her nap. And the sea horse must've gotten the boot too.